<p>We present a comprehensive phenomenological analysis of the Radion in the Randall-Sundrum model, focusing on its production via light-by-light scattering in ultra-peripheral proton-proton collisions at the LHC. We provide a consistent derivation of the effective couplings to Standard Model fields, clarifying the normalization of the trace anomaly-induced coupling to photons and the role of kinetic mixing with the Higgs boson. We demonstrate that while the pure gravitational coupling is loop-suppressed relative to Axion-Like Particles (ALPs), making the unmixed Radion elusive, the non-minimal mixing with the Higgs sector can induce constructive interference that enhances the signal by orders of magnitude. Using forward proton tagging to select exclusive high-mass events, we reinterpret recent experimental limits on ALPs to derive the first exclusion contours for the Radion in the (Λ<sub><i>r</i></sub><i>, ξ</i>) plane, where Λ<sub><i>r</i></sub> is the warped symmetry breaking scale and <i>ξ</i> is the non-minimal Higgs-gravity mixing parameter, showing that mixing scenarios are beginning to be constrained by current LHC data.</p>

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Searches for extra-dimensional excitations in light-by-light scattering

  • Malak Ait Tamlihat,
  • Ghizlane Ez-Zobayr,
  • Laurent Schoeffel,
  • Yahya Tayalati

摘要

We present a comprehensive phenomenological analysis of the Radion in the Randall-Sundrum model, focusing on its production via light-by-light scattering in ultra-peripheral proton-proton collisions at the LHC. We provide a consistent derivation of the effective couplings to Standard Model fields, clarifying the normalization of the trace anomaly-induced coupling to photons and the role of kinetic mixing with the Higgs boson. We demonstrate that while the pure gravitational coupling is loop-suppressed relative to Axion-Like Particles (ALPs), making the unmixed Radion elusive, the non-minimal mixing with the Higgs sector can induce constructive interference that enhances the signal by orders of magnitude. Using forward proton tagging to select exclusive high-mass events, we reinterpret recent experimental limits on ALPs to derive the first exclusion contours for the Radion in the (Λr, ξ) plane, where Λr is the warped symmetry breaking scale and ξ is the non-minimal Higgs-gravity mixing parameter, showing that mixing scenarios are beginning to be constrained by current LHC data.